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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fuck Assad, take him and his generals out. [View all]
There are lines that should not be crossed. Slaughtering your own population is one, using chemical weapons to do it is most definitely a big one.
Going to war solely to secure another countries resources under the guise of protecting the population was and is wrong. Standing on the sidelines while a regime slaughters it's population is also wrong.
The pollyannish myopia, that professes that all military action is immoral, even if it is the only way to stop brutish wholesale massacres, is as immoral, and is no different, then actually acquiescing the slaughter.
Whether or not we should be the world's policeman is a moot point, as we have amassed so much military might, that role is also part of the cost of our hunger for force dominance.
War is base and savage, we excell at it. Hit at all command and control assets as efficently as possible.
It is our moral duty